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Hololens 2: How Bad Having Tried It?

Introduction I working on pipeline of articles AR systems and technologies, including the many things I saw at CES 2020 in January and Photonics West (PW) in February plus some related topics. Between CES and PWI have been going in…

  • Karl Guttag
  • March 2, 2020
  • 31 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Laser Beam Scanning Projectors, Laser Projection, Use Model

Hololens 2, Not a Pretty Picture

Update 12-19-2019 – Added missing hyperlink for one of the photographs to the text. In editing the document, an important hyperlink that pointed to where I got one of the photos was accidentally lost. The link was included label of…

  • Karl Guttag
  • December 18, 2019
  • 52 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, HUD, Laser Beam Scanning Projectors, Laser Projection

Hololens 2 (HL2): “Scan Lines” Making Text Hard to Read and Quality Issues with Waveguides

Update (Dec 4th, 2019) Post Referred To In Original Article Deleted – News Control: Within 12 hours of the original article being posted, the posts/threads on Facebook’s Hololens Developer’s Group that I linked to in the original article have been…

  • Karl Guttag
  • December 3, 2019
  • 10 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Laser Beam Scanning Projectors, Startups, Use Model

Hololens 2 Video with Microvision “Easter Egg” Plus Some Hololens and Magic Leap Rumors

Introduction My next article was going to be about the view through AR devices, but a 1-hour video of Alex Kipman, Microsoft Fellow, discussing the Hololens 2 (HL2) at ETH October, 3rd 2019 (ETH Video) was just released. I decided…

  • Karl Guttag
  • October 10, 2019
  • 26 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Pico Projection

Hololens 2 First Impressions: Good Ergonomics, But The LBS Resolution Math Fails!

Update Feb 28, 2019 Updated that Microsoft is using 3:2 aspect ratio A report from some that used a Hololen 2 that they saw flicker on the outside of the image(as I predicted). Blog Down for 20 Hours thanks to…

  • Karl Guttag
  • February 27, 2019
  • 47 Comments
  • Intellectual Property, Laser Beam Scanning Projectors, Laser Projection

North’s Focals Laser Beam Scanning AR Glasses – “Color Intel Vaunt”

North’s Focals LBS AR Glasses Overview North (formerly Thalmic Labs) announced a few days ago (Oct 23, 2018) the “Focals” laser beam scanning-based AR glasses (aside: a set of confusing names). The best article I saw on the “Focals” was from…

  • Karl Guttag
  • October 25, 2018
  • 52 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Micro-LED, Pico Projection, Startups, Technology History, Use Model

Karl Guttag Interview Parts 2 and 3 On The AR Show Podcast

Jason McDowall has posted parts 2 and 3 of his “The AR Show Podcast” interview with me.  Links to the show are below or you can subscribe to the podcast. Karl Guttag (KGOnTech) on Microdisplay Technologies and the Hype of…

  • Karl Guttag
  • March 16, 2018
  • 3 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Laser Projection, LCOS, Pico Projection, Startups, Technology History, Use Model

Interview On The AR Show Podcast

Jason McDowall asked me to be one of his first interviews for his new “The AR Show Podcast.” Jason asked many excellent questions covering my history in the electronics industry in part 1. In the upcoming part 2 of the interview,…

  • Karl Guttag
  • March 6, 2018
  • 3 Comments
  • Pico Projection, Startups, Technology History, Use Model

2018 CES Haier Laser Projector Watch – (Wrist Projector Scams Revisited)

[Updated Feb. 18, 2018. A reader provided additional information about the Haier/ASU-Tech watch. According to a set of Tweets linked here, the Haier laser watch uses a Bosch BML050 dual mirror laser projector engine. That engine only claims to be…

  • Karl Guttag
  • February 17, 2018
  • 15 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Startups, Technology History, Use Model

Intel AR “Fixer-Upper” For Sale? Only $350M ???

Update Feb 5, 2018] – I have been informed that EPFL released a short video in 2012 (link here). The video shows a large test rig with a person holding a mock-up of the glasses talking about the wonderful things it…

  • Karl Guttag
  • February 4, 2018
  • 18 Comments
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